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THE OOLOGIST 



Additions. 



I wish to add the following to my 

 list of Isle of Pine Birds: 



West Indian Killdeer. 



Yellow Palm Warbler (1 individual 

 seen after a heavy storm.) 



Marsh Hawk (Seen on several oc- 

 casions.) 



Black-throated Green Warbler (2). 



Wilson's Snipe. 



Pigeon, Columba inornata. 



Myrtle Warbler. 



Tennessee Warbler. 



Cuban Crested Flycatcher. 



A. C. READ. 



Strange Nesting Sites. 



Sunday, May 9, 1909, about ten 

 o'clock a. m., a friend and I were walk- 

 ing along a road nine miles north of 

 Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. We came 

 to a school house yard, and while we 

 stopped to rest a few minutes, I went 

 into a small outhouse to look for 

 Wren's nests, and seeing some dry 

 grass protruding from the hollow in 

 the cave, I pulled myself up to look 

 down into it, and to my surprise there 

 sat an American Sparrow Hawk. I 

 put my hand down and lifted her up. 

 After securely fastening her in a cov- 

 ered basket, which I carried, I return- 

 ed to examined the eggs. There were 

 five of them, far advanced in incu- 

 bation. This must be of rare occur- 

 rence. 



In June, 1909, a man told me that 

 he had found a "Redbird's" nest in an 

 old shed about a half mile from town. 

 As I passed this shed some time later. 

 I happened to think of what the man 

 had told me, and went in the shed to 

 look for the nest, and sure enough I 

 found it. It was built in a space, be- 

 tween a large roll of fence wire, which 

 hung from a nail on the wall, and the 

 wall of hrough boards. The young had 



left the nest only a short time pre- 

 vious. 



Has any reader of THE OOLOGIST 

 ever heard of the Cardinal nesting in 

 a building? 



S. S. DICKEY. 



Unusual. 



Monday, April 12th, 1909, while I 

 was walking through an orchard three 

 miles West of Waynesburg, Pensyl- 

 vania, I passed by a good sized ap- 

 ple tree, on which were several large 

 dead limbs about eight feet from the 

 ground. From one of these dead 

 limbs, flew a Mourning Dove (Zenai- 

 dura macroura). I climbed up to the 

 limb and there resting in a hollow, 

 close to the trunk was the nest. It 

 contained two fresh eggs and to my 

 surprise, close to the eggs was a dead 

 Field Mouse, with its head partly eat- 

 en. It had likely been there for a 

 day or two, as its head, where the 

 blood had flown out was dry. 



I do not know whether the Dove had 

 been eating the mouse or not, but 

 this is surely a strange circumstance. 

 S. S. DICKEY. 



Additions to Our Cabinets for 1909. 



We have recently added to our cab- 

 inet, a little over three fifths of the 

 entire collection of birds eggs of F. T. 

 Corless ,of Portland, Oregon. 



In January, 1909, we came into pos- 

 session of the entire collection of 

 birds eggs, formerly belonging to W. 

 Lee Chambers of Santa Monica. Mr. 

 Chambers is one of Southern Califor- 

 nia's best known bird men; and is at 

 present Secretary of the Cooper Club 

 and business manager of The Condor. 

 His collection contained an unusual 

 percentage of rare and choice speci- 

 mens. Philo W. Smith, whose name 



